Extent: 7 leaves : paper ; 298 x 206 (260 x 155) mm bound to 300 x 210 mm
Note:
Binding: Modern cloth. Stains. One small wormhole. Some splitting and cracking of the edges of the leaves. Modern repairs to margins. Lower margins uncut. Origin: Written in Spain in the mid-16th century (Zacour-Hirsch). Ms. codex. Title and attribution from caption title (f. 1r). Incipit: Quando fuel cruel castigo / Julian conde malbado / ... Foliation: Paper, i + 7 + i; [1-7]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Layout: Written in 2 columns of 40 lines; ruled in drypoint. Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand. The second line of the heading (f. 1r), which identifies Fray Ganberto [sic] as Vagad and dates the work to ca. 1490, is written in a different, perhaps slightly later hand. There are corrections in a contemporary hand. Watermarks: Armillary sphere, almost identical with Briquet 14008. It is related to the group Briquet 13999-14008, all from southern France or the Pyrenees, and dated about 1550. Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1958.
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